From Dahlan Foah: Hi Dear Paul, We’ve been swamped. But here is: Here is the link to the recording of the first half of the Spivey Hall Gala Concert – June 22, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yr1dNM5h-8 Here is the link to the recording of the second...
Just in time for August, Latifah Taormina sends this: Hi Paul, Here’s some news from the VISTA group in Southern CA. The article I mention below is written by newly opened member, Jano Nightengale, a regular columnist for the local Coast News. She’s all...
From Fayra Teeters, Subud Portland: Subud Friends: It is with a proud, yet heavy, heart that I announce the Final Season of Masque Alfresco – and probably my very last Acting/Directing project. Why, you may be asking? I turn 75 this summer – time to...
The 1st Zoomuse Poems for Peace season ended in June with Claudia Castro Luna, former Poet Laureate of the State of Washington and war refugee from the U.S.-supported civil war in El Salvador. The series takes a summer break and comes back in September for Season 2....
An amazing exhibit by Farrah Karapetian is open until October 23, 2022 at the Wende Museum in Culver City, California. From the museum website: The 20-square foot aluminum guardhouse that sat outside the ADN headquarters in East Berlin from 1971–92 is both an artifact...
The Subud USA board asked me to create a video for my July 9 report and you can view it below. I’ve also put in my notes. I am grateful to be the Chair of SICA-USA and we DO NEED MORE PEOPLE willing to send us content. Don’t be shy! SICA-USA is the...
From Dahlan Foah: Concerto for Violin and Cello: “Un Pasto con Luciana e Mario” composed by Lucas Richman – Here is the recording from the concert by the Atlanta Musicians’ Orchestra, Kenn Wagner, violin and Nirav Patel, cello. Dahlan Foah,...
The SICA-USA Board voted last week to continue supporting the Poetry Postcard Fest. The Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul E Nelson and Lana Ayers and involves people signing up to send 31 original poems on postcards to folks on their list before the end of...
From Dahlan Foah: For SICA – Kenn Wagner, David Schepps, Honora Foà, Lucas Richman, and I are all in Subud. When I told someone this, the response was, “When is the concert?” June 22, 2022 “That’s Bapak’s birthday!” Enrico Leide was the uncle of Mario...
From Dahlan Foah: Hi Dear Paul, We’ve been swamped. But here is: Here is the link to the recording of the first half of the Spivey Hall Gala Concert – June 22, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yr1dNM5h-8 Here is the link to the recording of the second...
The Zoomuse Poems for Peace series completes its first year of readings by presenting Claudia Castro Luna, a former Poet Laureate of the state of Washington and author of the new book Cipotla Under the Moon. That Claudia is a refugee from the Salvadoran Civil War...
Ann Graham Walker is the next Zoomuse Poems for Peace featured reader on Thursday, May 19 at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT. She has written some amazing poems about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Visit our SICA Zoomuse Poems for Peace page. This series is a collaboration with...
When Adelia MacWilliam, Andrew Hall and I re-focused Zoomuse as Poems for Peace last September, we had no idea Europe would be plunged into war the way it has two months ago by Russia’s invasion and genocide in Ukraine. This month on Zoomuse Poems for peace we...
Save the Date: JUNE 22, 2022, 8:00 PM. Location will be announced very soon. David Schepps, Cello Kenn Wagner, Violin The Atanta Musicians’ orchestra. Featuring the World Premiere of ‘Un Pasto con Luciana e Mario’ – a concerto for violin, cello...
What a remarkable weekend it was March 4-6, 2022 as the Subud Archives interview project began in earnest in Seattle. Along with Benjamin Boyce your humble narrator had the huge privilege of discussing how longtime members found Subud, became members and articulated...
YouTube video of Sharon Thesen’s SICA ZoomMuse Poems for Peace poetry reading held on January 20, 2022. This event is part of a monthly series of ZoomMuse Poetry Reading of Poems for Peace, co-sponsored by SICA-USA and SICA Canada. On February 18, 2022 at 11am...
This in today from Victor Wuamett: “Jorji” goes live on Spotify and Apple today, as Ezra Bell returns to live performances tonight at the Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. (just touting Ben Wuamett as usual-check it out, there are some great songs on it) You...
Zoomuse Poems for Peace returns Thursday, January 20, 2022 with Sharon Thesen. The Zoom Meeting link on Jan 20 is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81799264950 Meeting ID is 817 9926 4950 The time on Jan 20 is: – 11 a.m. Pacific time – 2 p.m. Eastern time – 7 p.m. UK time – 8...
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